Green Gambling

How do I end my gambling problem?

I've been single, lonely and broke all because of gambling, how on earth do I committ myself into working hard and saving again in order to get back to social life.

Public Comments

1. Contact Gamblers Anonymous. Google it.
2. You've just taken the first step! Acknowledging and admitting to your problem is a huge step! However, committing yourself into working hard and saving again is not going to cure the problem. You first need to seek some professional help. Discussion groups are good with things like this even online groups can be helpful! do some research into how other people have over come such addictions. Ill give you an example, I suffer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. totally off the subject i know. However i too thought like you do. I thought right ive had enough im gonna get better now. but you cant just make a plan and hope for the best. I had to start taking medication and am seeing a doctor to talk to about it all. My doctor then helps me re establish my life . If you were to seek professional advice, they could help you commit to working and saving, but first you need to work on yourself personally
3. i've been in the same funk as you. i am still trying to get out of it. i've been gambling for years. i've had my ups and my downs, as have all gamblers. recently i've been depositing my money at bookmaker.com and betting on two-team and three-team football parlays and baseball bets and trying to pick the NFL upsets every week and loading up on the underdog moneylines and losing big time and then re-depositing over and over and over again to try to make up for my losses and then losing at an even faster rate at the no limit texas hold 'em tables because i get frustrated and play with no patience. it's very frustrating. and the worst part is that even when i'm winning, no matter how big of a parlay i win, the only thing i can think about is which games i want to RE-invest my winnings into. this is a never-ending cycle, and i knowingly lose my deposited money eventually, because once i start winning bigger, i start betting bigger, which equals losing bigger. at one point in the recent past, my social life got so bad that instead of going out with my [now ex-]roomates and best friends and drinking and laughing, i would sit at home in the dark because i HAD to watch the game that my money was loaded up on, and cheer for a team that i truly didnt care anything about, i just wanted them to cover the spread. it actually got bad enough that i would ignore my friends while they were in my own house so that i could pay attention to the evening game. as i said, i have been trying to get out of this funk. i recently opened a high interest online savings account with ING Direct. i deposited some money in there, and every paycheck i am going to deposit another big chunk into it, and let my nice interest rate help to make it all grow. this is something i have not done in the past because i have always "enjoyed" spending my extra money on sports bets and no limit poker. i would find it very accomplishing to build my savings account up to a nice, hefty little amount, using the money that i KNOW i would be trashing on bookmaker.com anyway, and then spend it on something REALLY nice for myself. i've been thinking about maybe buying a Suzuki GSX-R, or maybe using the extra money to pay the difference from a trade-in of my car for a two seater convertible, or something like that. if i can accomplish that, even if it takes a little while, i would feel very good about myself, and i think it would help me get out of this FUNK that i have been in. what do you think? Brandon
4. here are some links www.GamblingHelp.org www.lostbet.com www.gamblersanonymous.org hope that helps, if not just google and you will get more
5. agreed. you just made the first step. Keep going. The hardest thing I find is, after you are "clean" to fall alter again into the same trap. Happens with me with smoking. First I had a problem quiting, then when I quit I had no problem at all, because I substituted it with other things (eating more fruits and healthy stuff). But after a year, I thought, hmmn, I did well, so one cig will not kill me. And thats the devil for me. A friend of mine, a heavy ex-smoker, has not that problem. He just quit, because he is convinced that its a wrong thing for him to do, and that was it. amazing, he was smoking like 60 cigs a day, and went to 0 from one day to the other, and never touched one single cig. So its depending just on YOU. I have another bad habit, I can not still get rid of. So I am with you, I know its hard.
6. become a professional poker player,,i doubt ull get far with that name donkey,,all ur going 2 hear is shippe shipped (that means give me all the chips biatch and then u will get a bad beat and u will cry and hate will grow and then u see urself in a bridge because the little money u had is waisted on the casino and the ******* dealer that u have 2 give him a tip everytime u win a hand at the end of the night u gave him all ur winnings and ur broke so u jump and u dont feel a thing all u see is smoke and creatures around u is because ur in hell and then u realize hat life is not that bad ,and people r ok get up in the fff morning and go runnig eat healthy then people are going 2 notice u a u will feel like a winner ,,but if u go 2 hell u will suffer and get burned everyday and they will cook ur skin ,,so i give u an advice stop winning little biatch and do something 4 ur self no one is going 2 give it 2 u if u wnt 2 be the best poker player just ffffffffff do it move 2 vegas become a dealer or a bartender and play every ffffff game available and then u will meet ddanielnegranu and take u in his wing and we will watch u in the world series of poker making tons of money and u will talk about me the prson that changd ur misareble life and u will invite me 2 play poker ,,and we become buddies but u owe me big so u get me a fffff lmborgini murciealgo so i can get the punnani,,,anyways is better than what ur doing ,,stop jrking off and go 2 the gym and get 2 a mixed martial arts schools and blow all ur angr like i do i get out of there like a baby really tired so stop the fff winning and start tommorrow,,and let me know ur progrss if mot i see u in hell